Tattoos offer clue to woman's ID in N. Houston death

Updated 9:42 pm, Saturday, April 19, 2014

Police are asking the public's help in identifying a woman discovered dead inside an abandoned house in north Houston this week, authorities said.

The woman's body was found on a couch inside a home in the 1000 block of East 32nd street around 2:10 p.m. Thursday afternoon, authorities said. The house was abandoned and without utilities.

Although the woman's body was in advanced state of decomposition, police identified several tattoos on the body: a panther crawling up and over her right shoulder, a rose with the name "Lynn" above it on her right ankle, a bat with a moon on outer side of her right thigh, a red heart with on each side on her left ankle and a tribal-designed tattoo on her left wrist.